Les terres du ciel; voyage astronomique sur les autres mondes et description des conditions actuelles de la vie sur les diverses planètes du système solaire;

by: Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925; De Peyster, J. Watts (John Watts), 1821-1907, former owner. DSI; Imprimerie Lemercier et cie, printer of plates; E. Bernard et cie, photographer

Publication date: 1884

Topics: Planets, Utopias, Life on other planets

Publisher: Paris, C. Marpon et E. Flammarion

Collection: smithsonian

Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: French

statement of responsibility: ouvrage illustré de photographies célestes, vues télescopiques, cartes et nombreuses figures par P. Fouché, Motty, Blanadet, Hellé, etc. etc

Includes two mounted photographic prints of the moon produced by E. Bernard et cie

Some of the plates were printed or lithographed by Imp. Lemercier et cie

Errata on final p

additional physical form: Also available via the World Wide Web

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SCDIRB copy 39088015922164 is from the printing run of "onzième édition, 1er janvier 1884" (Colophon)

SCDIRB copy has bookplates: 1. armorial bookplate: John Watts de Peyster; with motto: Forti non deficit telum; N.Y. Oct. 24, 1978; 2. Smithsonian Libraries. Adopt-a-Book Program. Adopted by Frances Edmonds (Mohr) and Michael D. Mohr. With stamp on t.p.: Smithsonian Libraries

SCDIRB copy has the original gray paperboard binding with black-printed spine